The Class Window

The Class Window in the Class Relationship Pane displays your classes and allows you to rearrange your hierarchy using "drag-and-drop". A number of icons give additional information about your classes; see The Class Icons for a description. 

By default, the Class Window displays the class structure of your knowledge base. Subclasses appear below their superclasses and indented to the right. Classes with more than one superclass appear more than once in the tree. All classes are shown as descending, directly or indirectly, from the system class :THING. Icons show additional information about your class.

The currently selected class is shown with a highlight. Icons give information about the structure of your knowledge base and the nature of your classes. See The Class Icons for more information.

The Class Window allows you to perform the following tasks:

You can also rearrange the superclass/subclass relationships:

For additional superclass tasks you can perform, see the Superclasses Pane.

You can also choose to view classes according to Reference. See Viewing Class Relationships for more information.


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